Born: Counterslip, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England February 3 to Hannah Lane and Samuel Blackwell, sugar refiners, Quakers, and anti-slavery activists. We have a total of 8 siblings. Anna, Marian, Elizabeth, Samuel, Henry, Emily, and Sarah Ellen.
Elizabeth Blackwell was from a large and thriving family, and so she was taught by private tutors until 1832, when her family had to immigrate to the United States because of financial problems and their social and religious beliefs. Shortly after moving to New York, her father, Samuel Blackwell, became part of the abolitionist movement.
In 1835, the Blackwells moved to Jersey City to make new jerseys.
In 1838, they moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, but unfortunately, soon after they moved, Samuel died and left his family in poverty. Elizabeth and…show more content… But after her friend's death, she started to write to several different doctors about how she could process but was told by them that it was impossible, but she was able to convince two of her friends who were physicians to let her read medicine and mentored her. In 1847, she returned to Philadelphia, hoping that her Quaker friends could help her get into medical school. She applied to all medical schools in New York, Philadelphia, and 12 more schools in the northeastern states, and was accepted into Geneva Medical College in western New York State in 1847. She only got accepted into school as a joke, as the faculty assumed that an all-male student body would never agree to have a woman join their ranks, so they allowed them to vote on whether she should be allowed to join them, and so as a joke, they voted yes, and so she gained admission even though most of the school body reluctantly accepted
